Playing-card



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Y J. OMWAKE.

PLAYING CARD No. 563,235. Patented June 30, 18-96.

WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN OMWAKE, OFCINGINNATI, OHIO.

PLAYING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,235, dated June 30,1896.

Application filed August 1, 1895.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN OMW'AKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cincinnati, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Playing-Cards, of which thefollow ing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawing, wherein the figure illustrates a face viewof a series of cards embodying my invention.

My invention relates to playing-cards, and is more especially applicableto that character of cards employed for playing poker, wherein elevenand twelve spot cards of each suit are employed, in addition to theordinary deck of fifty-two cards.

Heretofore squeezers, or cards which have representations of thedenominations and suit indicated in the corners of the cards, have beenemployed to ascertain the character or value of the card without thenecessity of exposing the faces of the cards. However, where twonumerals are employed to designate the denomination of the card, troublehas been experienced because of the necessity of exposing both numeralsand a considerable portion of the faces of the cards, in order todetermine the character of all of the cards held in the hand.

The object of my invention is to obviate these difficulties heretoforefound in playingcards; and to this end my invention consists inemploying signs, preferably numerical signs of different characters, asArabic and Roman numerals, at right angles or nearly right angles toeach other on the corners of Serial No. 557,834. (No model.)

the playingcards and extending in a line substantially parallel to oneedge of the card, to designate the value of the cards so marked.

The representation in the drawing designates the hand of five cards, a,b, c, d, and e, each of which has a double Arabic numeral f to indicatethe denomination of the cards. Above and at right angles,or at nearlyright angles, to the Arabic numerals on each of these cards are Romannumerals g, h, 'i, j, and k, of the same value, so that when the cardsare squeezed, in the manner indicated in the drawing, the denominationof the cards can be determined from the Roman numerals, notwithstandingthe fact that no determination of the value of the cards could bearrived at from the Arabic numerals. It will be seen that these numeralsand the suitspot form a straight line at their outer edges.

Having described one form of my invention, and it being understood thatI do not limit myself to the exact details shown and described, what Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A playing-card, carrying near one corner a designation of valueexpressed by two or more Arabic numerals and in close proximity theretothe designation of the like value expressed by Roman numerals, that areat right angles to the Arabic numerals, substantially as described.

JOHN OMWAKE.

Witnesses FREDERICK HORMAN, \VILLIAM M. TIMBERMAN.

